pleno jure

[ pley-noh yoo-re; English plee-noh joor-ee ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. with full authority.

Example Sentences

The origin of such unendowed curacies is traceable to the fact that benefices were sometimes granted to religious houses pleno jure, and with liberty for them to provide for the cure; and when such appropriations were transferred to lay persons, being unable to serve themselves, the impropriators were required to nominate a clerk in full orders to the ordinary for his licence to serve the cure.

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